Tim Farish - The future of distribution is global.

Frank: Hi this is Frank Radice and we're here at the Red Touch Media experience and I'm with Tim Farish, who's the head of marketing for Gaumont International. Tim tell me a little bit about Gaumont and what you guys do. Tim: We're the newest shingle of the oldest film company in the world. Gaumont Film has been around since 1897 and we just opened up a shingle to start television production, international television production out in L.A, opened up about 3 years ago, I've been with the company for the past year and we've got 2 shows that are just entering their season 2, Hannibal on NBC and Hemlock Grove on Netflix and we're also here at the market with Barbarella which has been developed in partnership with Canal Plus and Narcos that's in development in partnership with Netflix. Frank: Wow, that's a lot of stuff that you have going. Tell me a little bit about how you guys look at, especially being such an established company, how do you guys look at the future of distribution? I mean, typical distribution is make a show, put it on television, move away. If it's a hit fine and if it's not try again. Tim: Well our whole model is a straight to series model as well. So what we're doing is, the future right now is for us is very much international global shows across the board. So what we're trying to do is abandon the pilot model and go straight to series but doing it in a way that, at my time at NBC, had not been all that successful and the way we're doing it differently is really packaging up the top American talent behind these shows but truly making them available globally at the same time. So with Hannibal, packaging up Bryan Fuller with Laurence Fishburne, Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, a great international cast but with a very known quantity with Bryan Fuller, great creative genius behind that show. With Barbarella, teaming up with Nicholas Refn and the writers of the last 5 James Bond movies, Neal Pervis and Robert Wade.